Paul Verhoeven

Big crazy budget sometimes dirty guy.

Robocop (1987) -- A funny, bloody movie with
great over-the-top acting and great little social commentary cutaways that
sometimes feel like they're threatening to become their own film, in the style
of The Kentucky Fried Movie. Even though it's only a little over an
hour and a half, the movie feels a little long, probably because you can only
milk the joke for so long. Slick and smart stuff, it only feels slightly
dated.
(See Irvin Kirshner for the
sequel, Robocop 2.) B

Total Recall (1990) -- Kind of
fun and crazy, but overall not that great to me. C

Showgirls (1995) -- He'd made a
huge hit previously by showing Sharon Stone's cooch in Basic
Instinct, so in this movie, he just shows everyone's
everything. The movie was so boring, though, that I barely got to
any substantial naked bits before I shut it off. The best thing
about this movie is that, when they play it on TV, they make
digital bras to cover up the boobs. D